{"id":214017,"date":"2016-07-21T16:21:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/21\/trump_used_cruz_to_pull_off_unity\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:56:28","slug":"trump_used_cruz_to_pull_off_unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/21\/trump_used_cruz_to_pull_off_unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Used Cruz to Pull Off Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:\u00a0 So I wonder if Ted Cruz is just kicking himself today, saying it would have been better if he\u2019d have just plagiarized the Michelle Obama speech. Maybe he\u2019d be in less trouble if he had done that.\u00a0 So all of you people who complain about how boring these conventions are, how there\u2019s never any drama, now you got a little drama, now you got a little unexpected, and everybody\u2019s having a cow.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone.\u00a0 Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program — and I know you do — I know I want to weigh in today.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the number:\u00a0 800-282-2882.\u00a0 And the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 One of the crucial things here that we have now learned about this is that Trump knew what Cruz was gonna say.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 That story has been reported, that Cruz\u2019s speech was submitted.\u00a0 Cruz has said that the Trump people knew what he was gonna say. The Trump people say that they knew what Cruz was gonna say.\u00a0 And everybody involved let it happen.<\/p>\n

So what is the end result of this?\u00a0 There are two overwhelming, inarguable results from this.\u00a0 Number one, we\u2019re gonna have a ratings bonanza tonight. And number two, we may be seeing the actual first threads of unity build behind Donald Trump because of this.\u00a0 And it could well be that Trump has pulled off a masterful move letting all this happen.<\/p>\n

I think that the argument that he may have done that is sort of rubber-stamped by the fact that he walked in to that convention hall at the exact moment that he knew Cruz was gonna be unloaded on by the audience.\u00a0 He walked into that convention hall last night to his box at the exact moment that it was gonna become, it did become clear to everybody that Cruz was not gonna endorse.<\/p>\n

Now, the key to all this is what has been reported, that everybody involved knew what Cruz was gonna say and thus everybody knew that Cruz was not gonna endorse.\u00a0 Now, I have warned everybody time and time again, you cannot judge, analyze, watch this convention through the regular political prism<\/a>.\u00a0 In this case, what I mean by that is in a normal convention, that speech would never been allowed.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Ted Cruz, even if he had been invited to give that speech and had submitted that speech to the campaign, and the campaign had seen that speech and discovered that there wasn\u2019t gonna be an endorsement. And, in fact, not only was there not gonna be an endorsement, there was gonna be something maybe even worse, and that was an intimation from Ted Cruz that he might not vote for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

There is no other candidate that would allow that speech to be made. There\u2019s no other candidate that would allow that type of person, that situation, Cruz, to even appear at the convention.\u00a0 But Trump did.\u00a0 The Trump campaign — and look, I\u2019m basing all this, just to be clear again, on the fact that everybody\u2019s reporting that everybody knew what Cruz was gonna say, and they let it happen.\u00a0 And I\u2019m telling you, no way that happens at a George Bush convention, a Bill Clinton convention, a Hillary Clinton convention.<\/p>\n

You think the Clintons are gonna allow Bernie Sanders to go up there and say something without knowing word-for-word what he was gonna say?\u00a0 It would never, ever happen.\u00a0 And if Bernie Sanders was gonna go out there and not endorse Hillary and be ambiguous about it, you think Hillary\u2019s gonna let him go out there?\u00a0 There is no way.\u00a0 They\u2019ll have Elizabeth Warren hijack him on the way to the convention hall and take him to a Burger King or something and keep him tied up for a couple hours so he can never get there.<\/p>\n

It would never happen.\u00a0 But it did happen last night.\u00a0 So now you\u2019ve got all these analysts trying to figure this out and proclaim the ultimate meaning, and the conventional wisdom is that Cruz is toast, he has just ended his career.\u00a0 Dr. Krauthammer said it perhaps in the most creative way.\u00a0 Dr. Krauthammer said: “It was the longest suicide note I have ever read.”\u00a0 Is that not good?\u00a0 (laughing)\u00a0 The longest suicide note I\u2019ve ever read.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the point, again.\u00a0 Because of that last night, look at all the unity now that is starting to occur for Trump.\u00a0 Look at all the people, including some of the Never Trumpers now coming to Trump\u2019s defense. Maybe not coming to Trump\u2019s defense, they are unifying with Trump against Cruz.\u00a0 You have some Never Trumpers who are applauding Cruz, but it\u2019s a minimal number.\u00a0 He does have his supporters out there.\u00a0 And a lot of his supporters are in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

Washington Post:\u00a0 “Ted Cruz Distinguished Himself Wednesday Night.\u00a0 Mike Pence Failed.”<\/a>\u00a0 They love it.\u00a0 They\u2019re looking at this the wrong way.\u00a0 They think that what happened was that Ted Cruz hijacked the convention and that nobody heard what Mike Pence said, and they\u2019re hoping nobody heard what Pence said because Pence was great.\u00a0 But people did hear what Pence said precisely because Cruz did what he did.<\/p>\n